Available with prior consent of the CELT programme for purposes of academic research and teaching only.

Sources

Manuscript sources

Chatsworth, Book of Lismore (at Chatsworth since 1930), folios 41ra184ra9 (facsimile foliation); published in facsimile: R. A. S. Macalister (ed), The Book of Mac Carthaigh Riabhach otherwise the Book of
Lismore, Facsimiles in Collotype of Irish Manuscripts V (Dublin: Stationery Office for Irish Manuscripts Commission 1950). Stokes's edition was made from the original, lodged for him in the British Museum.

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 478, 474 (olim 23 H 6 see Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the Royal Irish Academy, fasc. 10, 1278), made by Joseph O'Longan in 1868.

Internet resources

The book is available online in .PDF format at www.archive.org.

See http://www.ucc.ie/celt/book_lismore.html for further details and bibliographical information.

See http://www.ucc.ie/celt/ocurry_lismore.html for Eugene O'Curry's description of the manuscript's rediscovery in 1814, from 'Lectures on the Manuscript Materials of Ancient Irish History' (Dublin 1861).

The edition used in the digital edition

Lives of the Saints from the Book of Lismore. Whitley Stokes (ed), First edition [cxx + 411 pp] Clarendon PressOxford (1890)

Encoding

Project Description

CELT: Corpus of Electronic Texts

Sampling Declaration

All editorial introduction, translation, notes and indexes have been omitted. Editorial corrigenda (pp. 404411 and elsewhere in the edition) are integrated into the electronic edition. In general, only the text of the Book of Lismore had been retained, since variants are cited from other MSS in a non-systematic way and most are non-significant. Therefore, only significant variants are retained and these are tagged as variants. Missing text supplied by the editor is tagged.

Editorial Declaration

Correction

Text has been thoroughly checked and proofread. All corrections and supplied text are tagged.

Normalization

The electronic text represents the edited text. The editor's expansion of the notum for 'vero' as 'immorro' is retained throughout. Words are segmented in accordance with CELT practice.

Quotation

Hyphenation

Soft hyphens are silently removed. When a hyphenated word (hard or soft) crosses a page-break or line-break, the page-break and line-break are marked after the completion of the hyphenated word.

Segmentation

div0=the volume; div1=the individual saint's Life or religious text; paragraphs are marked div2; poems are marked for stanzas and lines. Page-breaks and line-breaks are marked, and the number of every line-break is give as lb n="nnn". Folio
numbers of the manuscript as rendered in the facsimile are marked mls unit="folio" n="n".